[This is the old program from SS 2009. The current program and contact information can be found here.]

24 April 2009, 16:00

Sten Rüdiger (Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Modeling the dynamics of IP3 receptor channels [Abstract] 

15 May 2009, 16:00

Santiago Gil (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin)
Complex self-organized dynamics in oscillator networks and methods of its control [Abstract] 

19 June 2009, 16:00

Matthew Downton (Institut für Theoretische Physik,Technische Universität Berlin)
Synchronization of rotating elastic filaments through hydrodynamic interactions [Abstract] 

26 June 2009, 16:00

Jerzy Górecki (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Science)
Information processing with a chemical reaction-diffusion medium  

Abstract:
I am going to give a short presentation on the information processing functions that can be executed by a reaction-diffusion medium. Different methods of information coding that can be adapted will be discussed. Within a particular assumption on information coding some algorithms like image processing, labyrinth solving or specific geometrical transformations, are automatically executed by the medium. The number of information processing operations increases if the medium is non-homogeneous and composed of parts characterized by different excitability levels. Using such medium one can easily build signal diodes, logic gates or memory cells. There are specific geometrical structures, such that the function they perform can be programmed with excitation pulses. I will also discuss the problems of functional scalability of chemical medium and of universality of its computing functions. Finally, I will present the perspectives of the field and put some questions that can be important for the further progress.
A. Adamatzky, B. De Lacy Costello, T. Asai, Reaction-diffusion computers, Elsevier, (2005)
K. Yoshikawa, I. N. Motoike, T. Ichino, T. Yamaguchi, Y. Igarashi, J. Gorecki, J. N. Gorecka, Basic Information Processing Operations with Pulses of Excitation in a Reaction-Diffusion System, International Journal of Unconventional Computing vol 5, pp 3-37 (2009).
K. Yoshikawa, H. Nagahara, T. Ichino, J. Gorecki, J. N. Gorecka, Y. Igarashi On Chemical Methods of Direction and Distance Sensing International Journal of Unconventional Computing vol 5, pp 53-65 (2009).

10 July 2009, 16:00

Christian Kleiber (Universität Basel, Switzerland)
Majorization and the Lorenz order [Abstract] 

17 July 2009, 15:00

Makoto Iima (Laboratory of Nonlinear Studies and Computation, RIES, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
Hydrodynamical study of flapping models [Abstract] 

17 July 2009, 16:15

Ernesto Nicola (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden)
How do cells break their symmetry? A reaction-diffusion model for cell polarization